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Neal Nelson over at hfheadgear.com is making a very cool head mount that fits around yay3d's VR Viewer.

I was lucky to score some samples and after adjustment found the adapter to be rather comfortable to use. Being head-mounted instead of face-mounted can be an advantage with a heavier tablet such as the Nexus 7.

There are models that fit other viewers too so definitely check them out!

Google recently released a Cardboard API for Android VR apps. Included is a great new capability to configure Cardboard app rendering for different viewer screen and lens sizes . The configuration is changed via a QR code that manufacturers provide with their product. By default, Cardboard apps are configured for a 5in smartphone with 25mm lenses.

At the present time, however, Google has not yet released the tools which would allow for non-default Cardboard configurations. Until this happens, Cardboard API-based apps will not properly fill your Nexus 7 screen. Note that this affects only a small number of apps. Most VR apps and content will display perfectly.

from CARDBOARD MANUFACTURING BEST PRACTICES - VERSION 1.1 - DECEMBER 2014

• If you’re creating a viewer with unique optical and input parameters:

- (Coming Soon) We’ll be releasing a custom QR & NFC encodingmethod for manufacturers to embed the parameters of the viewerdirectly into a QR code or NFC tag.

Please visit yay3d.com soon when we will providing a QR code for your VR Viewer once Google releases its tools, which should ultimately result in much better rendering for this device.